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Swedish for "gypsy". It's clearly not invented, but most uses seem to be on forum boards and so on, with seemingly nothing in books or news media. Here is one use on Google Groups. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 14:57, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
- It's obviously a corruption of zigenare. Listed in Svenska Wiktionary since 2012, I tried ziggis on Swedish Wikipedia and was redirected to Romer (Romanies). DonnanZ (talk) 10:21, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
- No entry in the SAOL word list, only zigenare and derivatives. DonnanZ (talk) 10:35, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
It's spoken language. You are not going to find it in books or dictionaries (other than Wiktionary, currently in sv and fi versions). It's not in the serious newspapers either, because it's got a racist tone. The word "ziggis" exists in many languages but the Swedish plural "ziggisar" alone gets 8770 hits in a simple Google search. I think it should be kept and tagged "derogative" and "slang". --Hekaheka (talk) 07:07, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
- The plural "ziggisar" is actually on Google Books and in Expressen. That's enough. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 15:26, 12 November 2016 (UTC)